You organize video in bins in the browser and play it in the viewer. This modeless interface neatly integrates editing and effects tools in one seamless package. Version 4.0 retains FCP's familiar four windows: the browser, the viewer, the timeline, and the canvas. The editor's interface is one of the most powerful and intuitive of its kind, and because so many professionals use it, help, documentation, instruction, and talent are widely available. The suite's applications have distinct but complementary and consistent interfaces, and the core program offers a quick and efficient means of performing just about every common editing task. Those are merely the base requirements-the faster your CPU and the more memory you have, the more flexible the real-time capabilities. The requirements are even more demanding to take advantage of RT Extreme and Soundtrack: 512MB of RAM and dual processors or a single processor running at a minimum of 500MHz. A CD drive won't cut it because the program comes on DVDs. Unlike earlier versions, FCP4 requires a G4, OS X 10.2.5 with QuickTime 6.1, at least 384MB of RAM, and a DVD player. If you have the right hardware, installation is a breeze. Plus, despite all the changes, anyone familiar with earlier versions of the software will immediately be able to sit down and get to work. And the new package includes LiveType for sophisticated animated titling, Soundtrack for producing original music, Cinema Tools for generating film-negative cut lists, and Compressor for batch-compressing video for DVD and the Internet.
The editor now provides radically better real-time performance, a completely customizable interface, and the ability to handle 24P footage, to name a few of the significant improvements. Apple's Final Cut Pro (FCP) has long been a leading nonlinear video-editing and effects application, but Apple has turned it into an entire suite with version 4.0.
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